Carl Pomerance quotes

“Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.”
-- Carl Pomerance

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“The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.”
-- Carl Pomerance

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“With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.”
-- Carl Pomerance

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“Log Log Log (x) goes off to infinity with x, but has never been observed to do so.”
-- Carl Pomerance

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“Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2004). “Mollie and Other War Pieces”, p.121, U of Nebraska Press

“There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”

“[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.”

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

“But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.”

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

“Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.19, Transaction Publishers